Effects of laser energy fluence on the onset and growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities and its influence on the topography of the Fe thin film grown in pulsed laser deposition facility

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Mahmood, S ^a,b   Rawat, R S ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Lee, S ^a   Zakaullah, M ^c   Tan, T L ^a   Springham, S V ^a   Lee, P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION PARAMETERS; DEPOSITION SURFACE; ENERGY FLUENCES; GATED IMAGING; LASER ENERGIES; LASER ENERGY FLUENCE; LASER INDUCED; LASER WAVELENGTH; OR-NETWORKS; PARTICLE AGGLOMERATES; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; TIME-RESOLVED; WAVE MODELS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

LASERS;

EID: 84868372234     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4763555     Document Type: Article

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